Michael Forsythe: Defending Press Freedom in China

Published: Oct. 8, 2014, 5:04 p.m.

Michael Forsythe, journalist for The New York Times, discusses how reactions to China’s rising economic influence could compromise press freedom. Forsythe gave a lecture entitled “Guarding Press Freedoms in the New Gilded Age: The Challenge of China” on September 30, 2014. It was co-sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, the Council for East Asian Studies, and Berkeley College. This video is part of the Yale Global Perspectives series. To learn more about Yale and China, visit http://world.yale.edu/regions/yale-china